2011
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
New Wikileaks cables detail Apple’s battle against Chinese knockoffs. When two chatbots try to talk to each other, things get weird. Privacy on the Internet? Inconceivable! …. but maybe that’s not a bad thing. Torrent users don’t scheme together, so…
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Fictionalizing Gadhafi
After decades of unlimited wealth and power, Gadhafi’s on the run. Such a steep decline from rich to running can only incite the imagination. Salon.com got a slew of authors to imagine the intricacies of Gadhafi’s current reality. Steve Almond…
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Rumpus Sound Takes: Ominous Ambience
Tasseomancy Ulalume (Turf Records) On the Tasseomancy song “Healthy Hands (will mourn you),” twins Sari and Romy Lightman repeat again and again the refrain, “All is lost.” The track is from their debut LP Ulalume, and the album – like…
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What Do You Deserve?
Alexander Maksik’s debut novel You Deserve Nothing reshapes an old story—predatory teacher and young student.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’ve been all about Soviet-era design lately, this is a fact. Skinks wish they could do it with way more things than they can. Sea energy harvesters are pretty fascinating. For some reason here are pictures of chicken embryos. Marvelous…
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Return of the Movie Binge
I remember being pretty casual last year about the illegality of theater-hopping on one ticket for an entire day, but this time around I arrive at the Boston Common 19 feeling nervous about the whole undertaking.
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Murakami Comin Your Way
Haruki Murakami discusses “Town of Cats,” an excerpt of his impending publication, 1Q84 (to be released in October) with the New Yorker’s fiction editor. More reason to get excited for fall’s literary bounty! “Whenever I write a novel, I have…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/29-9/4
This week in San Francisco… Monday August 29: Bill Berkson and Duncan McNaughton are reading from their most recent volumes tonight at Bird and Beckett Books in Glen Park. Both poets hold deep academic roots in the Bay Area-McNaughton was…
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Listen to Faulkner Read
William Faulkner secured the first Writers-in-Residence position at UVA and held the position for two terms. This site has sonically preserved Faulkner’s residency in the form of these recordings. He held readings, gave a couple addresses and answered questions from…
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Anarchy and Amazon Have Something in Common
The 17th century Guy Fawkes-inspired mask has become the symbol of anarchist protesting, made widely recognizable in the states from the movie V for Vendetta. More recently it became the face of infamous hacker group, Anonymous. Unfortunately, sporting this mask…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #100
MY WIFE’S FUNERAL ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my wife’s funeral.